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Will the chickens go willingly in the carriers? I’d pre-load the car with everything you can and save chicken chasing for last. Good luck!

Chooks are very docile and sleepy in the dark. At this point, we’re vaguely planning to go to a neighbor’s (they have three floors).

How far inland do you live from the channel?

Dang. Be safe. (take pictures if you can.)

We’re about three miles inland, but our fields are crisscrossed with waterways and below sea level. Our house in particular — being 400 years old and all — has sunk. Or the land around it has built up. Anyway, you take three steps down to get to our front door.

That leaves us with a question.
Who will pay off if someone takes you in the pool?

Good luck SWeasel!

You all stay safe over there now!

The husband and I had tickets for the ferry out to the Dry Tortugas earlier this week. 7-9 ft seas cancelled the run. Now we’re in the Everglades, with a full moon. We’re used to the big tide changes of New England, couple those with a full moon and a northeastern wind and you get flooding all along the coast with the water pushing into places like Plymouth by almost a mile. The locals looked at us today like we had 2 heads as we enquired what the moon tide would pull and would it shut down our tour into the mangrove swamps tomorrow. Finally, a guy who was retired navy realized what we were asking and said “they only thing that really raises the tide here is a storm surge from a hurricane.” I’ve lived north so long, I’ve forgotten my southern upbringing 🙄

Aquatic weasels, they are called otters. Instead of murdelating bunnies and ring-necked pheasants and hitching rides on woodpeckers, they crunch tench and barbel and perform unspeakable acts on plump beavers.
Otters are Michael Phelpses of the mustelid world, weed, wenches and all.

Quick Question…

When you unload a ‘cat/chicken’ carrier do you still find all the animals you put inside originally? Or are there only cats?

I’m having visions of weasel’s chooks running about in the wet with little Wellies on. Or just lchicken Wellies on in general. Stay dry if possible!

Nice that we didnt have a repeat of The Mill On the Floss. But seriously, the UK has had a heck of a lot of flooding the past few years. And I understand you cant do much about tides. But it seems there shd be better flood planning. Actually, dont they have some sort of thingys in the Thames to protect against tidal flooding? Of course, that doesnt help with Channel flooding. Anyway, it just seems you Brits are way too wet, these days. Must be AGW or the Russians. 🙂

@Ric Fan – Not AGW, not Russians, but greenie and/or power-mad politicians and bureaucrats deliberately letting things silt up for benighted ecological fantasies or because spending the money doesn’t buy enough votes.

Uncle Al has it right. The East side of the country has always been at risk from the sea (indeed, that’s why we are an island now – we weren’t always)but the recent flooding has almost entirely been down to letting hippies take over the (ir)responsible authorities.

Californians will, I suspect, sympathise.

Indeed we do!

Pfft. Our hippies are even more arrogant and stupid. Can’t out-stupid a state with Uncle Jerry as governor.

Swease, I’ve always been curious exactly where you live in England and have noticed you’re just cryptic enough to never reveal it precisely. Because I’m a curious lad, some might say ‘a stalker’, I think I’ve culled enough clues from your previous posts to deduce you live near Southese? No need to acknowledge if I’m right but a game of ‘getting warmer…getting colder’ would be fun.

Actually, thefritz, I’ve always worried that I am too indiscreet about our location. I suspect if you put a red dot on the map for every place I’ve posted about visiting, our house would be slap in the middle, surrounded by lots and lots of red dots. And that’s not taking into account things I’ve said about local landmarks.

Short answer, no. I had to look up Southese as I’d never heard of it.

It’s completely whack that we were considered at risk of flooding the other night. We’re miles from the Channel and not even on a river. It must be something funky about the water table or something.